Yi Wei is a Chinese conductor based in London. In the 2025/26 season, he will make his debuts with The Royal Ballet and Opera, Scottish Ballet, and Northern Ballet, and will return as a guest conductor to Birmingham Royal Ballet. He was recently appointed Assistant Conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C.

Yi has conducted orchestras across the UK and internationally, including the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Northern Ballet Sinfonia, The Kennedy Centre Opera House Orchestra, the Band of His Majesty’s Royal Marines Scotland, and Orchestra Academia China.

From 2023 to 2025, Yi was the Constant Lambert Conducting Fellow with The Royal Ballet and Opera and Birmingham Royal Ballet. He made his debut with Birmingham Royal Ballet and the Royal Ballet Sinfonia in Luna, and went on to conduct performances of The Nutcracker and Cinderella in major theatres across the UK, including the Royal Albert Hall. As a Fellow, he also worked extensively as Assistant and Cover Conductor on productions such as Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, The Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Romeo and Juliet, The Dante Project, Manon, The Winter’s Tale, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Maddaddam, Prodigal Son, Serenade, and Symphony in C.

Yi has served as Assistant Conductor in programs with the BBC Philharmonic, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, collaborating with conductors including Sir Andrew Davis, Andrew Manze, Andrew Litton, Antony Hermus, Ben Gernon, Carlo Goldstein, Julian Rachlin, Jonathan Lo, Koen Kessels, and Paul Murphy.

He studied conducting at the Royal Northern College of Music with Mark Heron and Clark Rundell, graduating in 2022 with one of the highest final recital scores ever awarded and receiving the Brierley/Kershaw Prize. In 2024, he was awarded an Associate Membership of the RNCM (ARNCM). He has also previously earned his Bachelor’s degree in Conducting at the China Conservatory of Music under Youqing Yang. Yi has also taken part in masterclasses with Martin Brabbins, Omer Meir Wellber, Barry Wordsworth, Jonathan Lo, Antony Hermus, Sir Mark Elder, Ludovic Morlot, Domingo Hindoyan, Alexander Polishchuk, Guido Johannes Rumstadt, Shao En, Claire Levacher, Peter Stark, and Mark Gibson.